Nature Calendar
Here’s a handy nature calendar featuring what to look out for each month in the local landscape courtesy of the RSPB Loch Lomond Nature Reserve at Gartocharn. Use this before you visit us so you know what to look out for here on Loch Lomond.
January
Geese including Greenland white-fronted geese (feeding & roosting) and large numbers of pink-footed geese on the roost, otter activity, winter wildfowl, roe deer, red squirrel activity, hen harrier
February
Geese including Greenland white-fronted geese (feeding & roosting) and large numbers of pink-footed geese on the roost, otter activity, winter wildfowl, roe deer, red squirrel activity, hen harrier
March
Geese including Greenland white-fronted geese (feeding & roosting) and large numbers of pink-footed geese on the roost, otter activity, winter wildfowl, roe deer, red squirrel activity, frog chorus (dependent on spring arrival time), hen harrier
April
Summer migrant arrival, signs of spring, otter activity, osprey return from migration, water wildlife from pond, frog chorus (dependent on spring arrival), roe deer
May
Bluebells, birdsong, osprey, otter activity, wildflowers, water wildlife from pond, roe deer, nest building, hirundines
June
Orchids, wildflowers, butterflies, moths, bumblebees, osprey, water wildlife from pond, woodland birds, hirundines, wild food foraging
July
Butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies, bumblebees, otter activity, osprey, woodland birds, wildflowers, moths, roe deer, water wildlife from pond, young birds at feeders, hirundines
August
Osprey, butterflies, otter activity, woodland birds, dragonflies and damselflies, wildflowers, bats and moths, roe deer, water wildlife from pond, young birds at feeders
September
Otter activity, osprey, autumn colours, fungi, roe deer, water wildlife from pond, red squirrel activity, passage migrants (thrushes, flocks of meadow pipits), gathering hirundines, wild food foraging, fungi (dependent on seasonal conditions)
October
Autumn colours, geese arrival, roe deer, fungi, winter wildfowl, red squirrel activity, thrushes
November
Geese particularly Greenland white-fronted geese (feeding & roosting), otter activity, autumn colours, fungi, winter wildfowl, roe deer, winter thrushes, red squirrel activity
December
Geese including Greenland white-fronted geese (feeding & roosting) and large numbers of pink-footed geese on the roost, otter activity, thrushes, winter wildfowl, roe deer, red squirrel activity, hen harrier
